Sharing your itinerary with friends, family and fellow travelers before you set off in your 4×4 on that dirt road could save you some serious hassle. We found a brilliant website that helps you with just this!
Organize your travel with TripIt
TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans. TripIt is free and makes it easy to…
- Quickly organize all your travel plans – flights, hotels, cars, trains, cruises and more
- Automatically get itineraries with all your plans, weather, maps, restaurants and more
- Easily access your itineraries via paper, email, personal calendar or mobile device
- Share your trips and see where you overlap with friends and colleagues
TripIt Easy to use
Simply forward your travel confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com and they do the rest.
TripIt can accept booking confirmation emails from travel agencies, airlines, hotels, rental cars, train providers, cruise lines and even restaurants reservations from OpenTable.
What happens to your travel booking?
Once you email your travel booking to TripIt, the TripIt “Itinerator” takes over and automatically combines your related travel bookings into a single master itinerary. Then the Itinerator searches the Web to add related information, including daily weather, local maps, driving directions, city guides and more. You’ll get an email from TripIt when your new itinerary is ready.
TripIt automatically adds helpful information to your itinerary from: Eventful, Flickr, Google Maps, NOAA, SeatGuru, Wikipedia. Learn more…
What can you do with your itinerary?
Print your itinerary and head out the door with all your travel plans and confirmation numbers in one place. Or you can customize your itinerary with additional maps and directions, meetings and activities, or even other Web pages that you’ll need on your trip. You can also access all your travel plans while on the road from your mobile device or automatically sync your detailed itineraries to your personal calendar.
It’s also possible to create a network of TripIt Connections so you can view each other’s travel calendars and get alerted when your travel plans overlap with each other. It’s also easy to share complete itineraries with friends or family who need to know your travel plans, or collaborate with fellow travelers on a trip. Learn more…
MAC’S LAWS OF SURVIVAL
Do you remember the first three laws of survival?
Your brain is your number one survival tool, so donââ?¬â?¢t forget…
- S.T.O.P
- Sit
- Think
- Observe
- Plan
- The Rule of threes
- 3 weeks no food
- 3 days no water
- 3 minutes no air
- P.R.W.F – Please Remember Whatââ?¬â?¢s First
- Protection
- Rescue
- Water
- Food
Mac’s fourth law of survival
…is to avoid problems by being prepared:
- Plan for the worst eventuality.
- Place a log of where you will be and when on www.flameofafrica.com/sos
- Have a full medical and dental check before you go, and think of having a tetanus jab.
- Have a survival kit on hand.
- Do research on the area you�re visiting: its weather, terrain, customs and taboos.
- Check your equipment, clothing, radios, GPS, vehicles and recovery gear.
- Let someone know where you are to be by when, so alarms will go off if you don’t arrive.
